The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-07-09
BrOadbFim'S New york Letter.
sneclal to the CARnoN ADVOCATE.

week. it Is tolerablv evident that there is
pretty large fracture in our Excise law.
Mayor Hewitt is nothing, if not a strict
and several weeks ago he
called in question the right of hotel-keepers
to supply the water of life and other tooth
some and exhilerating liquids to theii
guests on Sundays. That the authority to
sell liquors on Sunday, by inu-keepers,
otherwise known as hotel-keepers, had
been strained to its uttermost limits, is be-
yond question. In some Instances three or
four cheap cots were stored in room with
a couple of dirty blankets, and the ability
TO afford lodgings fer half dozen tramps,
constituted an inn and, OF course, this in
cluded free drinks for all the policemen on
the beat. At the Hoffman House, the Gill
sey the Brunswick, or the Fifth Avenue
men ordered a cracker and cheese, and
with them several rounds of brandy and
water or whiskey straight, The open man
ner in which this was done became pub
lie scandal, and at last Mayor Hewitt was
appealed to b; he consulted the Corporation
Counsel, and in the plenitude of his legal
wisdom the Corporation Counsel opinion,
that it was entirely in defiance Of law. In
this dllemms, Captain Alexander Williams
came to the front, and conspiracy was
formed to make a test case. Everybody in
the city knows Captain Williams, and this
officer Of the law en- the Sabbath day goes
into hotel and orders liquor-and gets it,
and drinks it, knowing at the same time
that he is aiding in breaking the law. He
then turns around and swears cut war
rant for the arrest of the hotel keeper, who
stood by while he took his drink ; and tho
case is tried by Judge Lawrence in cham
bers. The language of the act is clear as
daylight, and it is substantially this that
no one holding license for the sale Of
spirituous liquors shall ON the Sabbath day
either sell or give the same away. No ex-
ception is made for any class of sellers,
hotel keepers or others all are included in
the act, and Judge Lawrence so decided.
The case was appealed this week TO full
bench, and the decision of Judge Lawrence
was reversed. A shout went up when the
decision reached us on Friday night, but
by some hitch it was not received by the
police authorities till late Saturday night,
and on Sunday the bett'es again appeared
on hotel tables. and the landlords and
guests were happy. The experience of the
past tive Sundays will lnot be forgotten very
soon. There was weeping and wailng and
gnashing of teeth when the temperance cy-
clone first struck us and now the hotel
keepers talk of holding a monster jubilee
on the return to the ways of our fathers.
The theaters are closed and the churches
are about to be closed, the examinations
are past, and the schools shut their doors.
To the thousands of young men who haye
graduated and are casting about in search
Of an honorable profession l should un-
hesitatingly say, choose the diamond field
or the prize ring Both of these admirable
professions open the way to honor and to
wealth.
We have in this city a number of great
journals ; they go into every family, and
any morning in the week you can learn how
Carney smashed Mitchell all to pieces, oil
Dempsey knocked spots cut of Jack McAu-
lift, or Billy the Kid knocked the Spider
aky high and for fear that some of the in
teresting details might be lost to you, eacf
round is minutely described, tilr at last on,
of the brutes is knocked all in heap, ant
left for dead upon the ground. The sport
ing editor and reporter are exceedingly wei
paid men, aud rank infinitely above th'
man whe reports a sermon or the deings o
philosophical society. The Superintend
ent of Public Instruction, having charge o
thousands of our children with immorta
souls in his keeping, is the envy of his fel
lows, on a salary of three or four thousanC
dollars year. A decent batter or catche
in a baseball team will laugh at you fo
such an offer, and the purchase of one by
Western club cost the club more none,
than is paid to any minister in the UniteC
States, and this did not include his yearl,
salary. / attended ball match the othe
day, and / never saw greater honor paid L
moral man than was paid to lucky catch
Ell who could scarcely write bis name.
A few weeks since prize fighting brut
came here from England leeking for
fight since his arrival he has pounde,
several men almost to death ; that he di,
not completely murder them, was not th
fault of Mr.. Carney,-he did the best b
oauld aud OoNv oftar q sbort en;ourr L,
returns to his native land, which is Ireland
his pocket stuffed with COED American
bank notes, having earned during his shor
stay more money than was paid to th
President of the United States in the sam
time. Who we're the men who furnishe
the cash-brutes or Carney himself? oh
no but fine gentlemen who could afford t
pay fifty dollars ticket for the sport. Blu
the wheat pit and the coffee pit haye caugh
, some Of these fine patrons Of the deg pi
and the man pit, and it almost makes m
feel bad, the growing unbellef in that othe
pit,-where fine gentlemen who go to priz
3 fights won't have to pay fifty dollars for
ticket but they viii find their hats chalke
ID. H.
Mr.. Jake Sharp is convicted, and even
he escapes through some of the fine meshe
+ of the law, he will never forget the exper
: ence of the past two weeks. Take ma
at seventy, who has been revelliHg i
wealta all his life, who has a palace to lily
[ in, horses, carriages, servants, eyerythin
[ that the heart of man can desire VIII
could say to one 60, and he goeth, an
to another Come, and he cometh, "-th
1 man who was In a position to scatter mi
4 lion Of dollars without question and aftt
: the enjoyment OF all these things lock hil
e up in jail, and even death would be r,
D lief Up to this time Mr. Sharp enjoye
d many privileges not accorded to ordinaE
I criminals. At first he was allowed TO n
e main in his own house in charge Of deput